Introduction

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In my corpus, I would like to look at how much your ‘liked songs’ in spotify are represented in your ‘on repeat’ list. I find this an incredibly interesting part to spotify lists because my ‘on repeat’ list often doesn’t match the songs I really like at all. I was wondering if the ‘on repeat’ list is compiled by indeed looking at the liked songs or if the spotify algorithm looks more at the listening time of songs.

So in this corpus, I’m going to look mainly at my own “on repeat” playlist and my own “liked songs. These two lists are, surprisingly, not even close to equal. Still, I do expect to see certain artists that I ‘like’ a lot back in my ‘on repeat’ list.

Both of these lists contain all kinds of genres, artists, styles, etc. I have a very broad music taste, so it is extra interesting for me to compare my “on repeat” list with my “liked songs. With spotify users who only listen to 1 artist, I expect the two lists to be fairly similar and therefore my ‘case’ is more interesting.

7: Use of different variables such as tempo, valence, track popularity and mode to quickly see the structure of the playlists

In this first graph you can see the 30 songs of my ‘on-repeat’ playlist divided between tempo, ‘valence’, ‘track popularity’ and the ‘mode’. This graph gives a clear picture of how my playlist is structured. You can see here that my ‘on-repeat’ playlist consists mainly of major songs that are also generally upbeat (logical connection). In addition, the tempo is average and my playlist consists mainly of popular tracks. This information is important because it gives a good idea about the playlist and therefore the songs that make up the playlist.

The second graph shows the first 30 songs of my ‘liked-songs’ playlist. This graph is constructed in the same way as the first graph and thus distinguishes between tempo, valence, mode and track popularity.

With the second graph, at first glance you don’t see a clear difference with the first graph. The division major/minor seems to remain about the same and also the track popularity seems to be the same. Yet there are substantial differences when you zoom in deeper. There are a few outliers in tempo and valence but in general the tempo is slightly lower. In addition, in this graph you see a kind of relationship between tempo and valence because the ‘valence’ increases when the tempo also increases. In the first graph, this relationship is not present.

In short, there are similarities between these 2 playlists when you look at these 4 areas but there are definitely differences as well. These differences show that my ‘liked songs’ are not fully represented in my ‘on-repeat’ playlist but because there are also similarities, similarity is definitely possible.

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8: chromagrams

In the two chromagrams below, you can see the first two songs of each playlist. So the first song in my liked songs playlist and the first song from my on repeat playlist.

Conclusion

to be written :))